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Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• WARM2d [PATCH v2 0/3] PCI: endpoint: Add PCI DMA endpoint function (part 3/3)
  2026-05-25 06:35 · 1 reply in 7d · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH v7 0/9] dmaengine: Add new API to combine configuration and descriptor preparation
  2026-05-21 15:33 · 1 reply in 7d · <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
  4 attestations (4 Tested-by) · last on 2026-05-21
• Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
  3 attestations (3 Acked-by) · last on 2026-05-21

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on dmaengine (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• WARM2d [PATCH v2 3/3] Documentation: PCI: Add PCI DMA endpoint function documentation
  2026-05-25 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v7 1/9] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2026-05-21 · <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: PCI: Add PCI DMA endpoint function documentation
  2026-05-21 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• COOLING6d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v6 1/9] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2026-05-20 · <hidden>
• COOLING6d [PATCH] nios2: remove the architecture
  2026-05-18 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COOLING14d REVIEWED: 22 (22M) [PATCH v5 1/9] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2026-05-12 · Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/9] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2026-05-06 · Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] dmaengine: dmatest: fix preposition error in documentation
  2026-05-02 · Wang Zihan <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 3/4] dmaengine: dmatest: fix preposition error in documentation
  2026-05-02 · Wang Zihan <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH 15/15] Documentation: PCI: endpoint: Add vNTB DMA export HOWTO
  2026-03-12 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• STALE124d [RFC PATCH v4 34/38] Documentation: driver-api: ntb: Document remote embedded-DMA transport
  2026-01-18 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• STALE124d [RFC PATCH v4 33/38] Documentation: PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-vntb: Update and add mwN_offset usage
  2026-01-18 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• STALE91d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/9] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2026-01-05 · Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
• STALE71d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 1/8] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2025-12-18 · Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com>
• STALE135d [RFC PATCH v3 34/35] Documentation: PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-vntb: Update and add mwN_offset usage
  2025-12-17 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• STALE135d [RFC PATCH v3 35/35] Documentation: driver-api: ntb: Document remote eDMA transport backend
  2025-12-17 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• STALE162d [PATCH] docs: dmaengine: add explanation for phys field in dma_async_tx_descriptor structure
  2025-11-13 · Bhanu Seshu Kumar Valluri <hidden>
• STALE187d [PATCH v8 01/11] dmaengine: Add DMA_PREP_LOCK/DMA_PREP_UNLOCK flags
  2025-11-06 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE211d [RFC PATCH 25/25] Documentation: PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-vntb: Update and add mwN_offset usage
  2025-10-23 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• STALE387d [PATCH] docs: dmaengine: add explanation for DMA_ASYNC_TX capability
  2025-04-21 · kendrajmoore <hidden>
• STALE415d [PATCH] docs: Remove literal markup from Documentation/ paths
  2025-04-04 · Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <hidden>
• STALE423d [PATCH v7 1/8] dmaengine: add DMA_PREP_LOCK and DMA_PREP_UNLOCK flag
  2025-03-11 · Bartosz Golaszewski <hidden>
• STALE443d [PATCH v6 02/12] dmaengine: add DMA_PREP_LOCK and DMA_PREP_UNLOCK flag
  2025-01-15 · Md Sadre Alam <hidden>
• STALE498d [PATCH v5 02/12] dmaengine: add DMA_PREP_LOCK and DMA_PREP_UNLOCK flag
  2024-12-12 · Md Sadre Alam <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies LANDED [PATCH] Documentation: dmaengine: Correct reference to glReadPixels()
  2024-10-10 · Nathan Lynch via B4 Relay <devnull+nathan.lynch.amd.com@kernel.org>
• STALE590d LANDED [PATCH v1 1/3] dmaengine: acpi: Drop unused devm_acpi_dma_controller_free()
  2024-10-07 · Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
• STALE629d LANDED [PATCH V2] Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes
  2024-08-17 · Amit Vadhavana <hidden>
• STALE649d [PATCH] Documentation: Fix spelling mistakes
  2024-08-10 · Amit Vadhavana <hidden>
• STALE697d LANDED: 1 (0M) [PATCH v12 7/7] Documentation: dmaengine: Document new dma_vec API
  2024-06-20 · Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
• STALE697d [PATCH v12 6/7] Documentation: iio: Document high-speed DMABUF based API
  2024-06-20 · Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• STALE71d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v2 1/8] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2025-12-18 · Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com> · 1 Tested-by
• STALE91d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v3 1/9] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2026-01-05 · Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com> · 1 Tested-by
• COLD15d REVIEWED: 1 (1M) [PATCH v4 1/9] dmaengine: Add API to combine configuration and preparation (sg and single)
  2026-05-06 · Frank Li <Frank.Li@nxp.com> · 1 Tested-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• STALE135d [RFC PATCH v3 34/35] Documentation: PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-vntb: Update and add mwN_offset usage
  2025-12-17 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• STALE124d [RFC PATCH v4 33/38] Documentation: PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-vntb: Update and add mwN_offset usage
  2026-01-18 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• STALE124d [RFC PATCH v4 34/38] Documentation: driver-api: ntb: Document remote embedded-DMA transport
  2026-01-18 · Koichiro Den <hidden>
• STALE72d [PATCH 15/15] Documentation: PCI: endpoint: Add vNTB DMA export HOWTO
  2026-03-12 · Koichiro Den <hidden>